Chapter 20: Chicks

Business in the restaurant and the ready-to-wear shoe factory is booming, and Chen Wenhui and Bai are also very happy. At this time, Ziyu returned.

Ziyu freshened up and entered the upper room, and said to Bai and Chen Wenhui: "Good news to Mrs. and girl, I finally hatched chicks by myself." ”

Chen Wenhui and Bai were very happy despite their mental preparation. Especially the Bai family, when her daughter said it to Ziyu, although she supported it, it was purely a decision made to support her daughter, in fact, she herself did not think that people could hatch eggs instead of hens. I didn't expect it to come out.

Bai Shi hurriedly asked, "Ziyu, did you really hatch the chicks yourself?" Ziyu had expected Madame to be so surprised. In fact, she didn't believe it at first, but thanks to that thermometer, she was able to master this technique very quickly. When the chicks hatched out, Li Laoshi's family was scared of the six gods and no owner, and the hens hatched the chicks, which was a natural principle. Now you don't need a hen, just someone is taking care of it, just burn a kang, it turns out that the kang can hatch chicks, this Li honestly can't understand.

It can only be attributed to the fact that the purple jade is too powerful, and it can be compared with the immortals. Under this knot, Li Laoshi has been obedient to Ziyu all his life. Li Laoshi's eldest son has been tidying up the yard with Ziyu, planting trees, building a kang, and hatching chicks, and now he sees that the chicks are really hatching. I also rejoiced.

Ziyu smiled and said to Bai, "Madam, the chicks were not hatched by me. It is hatched with a kang. "After that, I will explain the whole principle.

Bai Shi understood: "In that case, you can hatch a lot at once, right?" Ziyu said, "Yes, the first time we were afraid of wasting eggs, so we only hatched about thirty chicks. Later, I mastered the technology, and now I can hatch more than 100 at a time. The chickens are now growing well, and they have been distributed to our tenants. ”

Bai immediately realized that this was a business opportunity, so he said: "That's good, now our restaurant's meat problem can be solved quickly, but if the chickens want to grow up, I'm afraid it will take a year." ”

Ziyu said: "No, madam, we used the girl's method, using straw to raise earthworms, and then using earthworms to raise chickens, and the chickens grow faster than the batch we bought before, and I think they can be eaten in half a year." ”

Bai said: "Yes, that's good, half a year is okay." I have asked Chen Cai to buy chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep around the county. It should be able to cope with half a year. After half a year, we don't ask for help, and we can use what we raise. ”

Ziyu said: "Yes, madam, I want to build a hatchery to hatch chicks, ducklings and the like, and the seedlings that come out can't all be sold to our tenants, after all, we can't digest so much ourselves, we can raise them for the surrounding people, and we can buy them well, so good?" ”

Bai clapped his hands and said, "Okay, why is it not good, it's hard for you to think about it thoroughly." Just set up a hatchery. How much silver do you want, make a list, I read it, handed it to Chen Cai, and paid the silver. During this time, our restaurants and garment shops were doing very well business, and there was still money in the account. By the way, this month's soybean oil money is also available. ”

Ziyu immediately took out a piece of paper from her sleeve and handed it to Bai. Bai smiled: "You, it turns out that you have been prepared for a long time." "After saying that, it looks. Ziyu smiled embarrassedly, and said, "Madam, I was able to do this thing so quickly this time, thanks to the help of Li Zhuangtou's eldest son, Li Huan." ”

Bai Shi said while looking at it: "I remember that his sons all have monthly money, and they are given according to the little servant. Since this is a talent, let's mention it as a steward. Let him run the hatchery with you, there are some things that you can't come forward with a girl's family, just let him come forward, and it is also an experience. Ziyu hurriedly thanked Li Huan.

Now the Bai family has already understood, and asked Qingshuang to take it to calculate the account, Qingshuang said: "About eighty taels of silver." ”

Bai said: "The silver is not much, but it is a small number. We'll be able to take it out right away. I'm thinking about something else. You see how much money is left in the account. ”

Qingshuang took out the account book and said: "The restaurant is settled every day, and so is the workshop, and it is not yet time to repay the money for the fabric of the workshop, and the money for soybean oil has also arrived, so there are close to 1,000 taels of silver on the account." ”

Bai said, "Well, I thought I should buy some more land. Ziyu listened and hurriedly said, "Madam, I have been paying attention to this for a long time. Because our tenants have all lived in new houses, the people in the villages near Lijiagou are very envious. There should be no problem in buying land, and I have inquired nearby, and there are about thousands of acres of land that can be bought. But now it is not harvest time, and the land can not be sold until after the autumn harvest. ”

Bai said: "That's fine, just keep the money and pay it off." The money for building a restaurant and repairing a yard was repaid little by little. When autumn comes, buy more land and make a big Zhuangzi. In the past, I just bought a small Zhuangzi of 200 acres, but there was no way, and at that time the money was not available, and now it is only a medium Zhuangzi of 1,000 acres. Ziyu, you keep more snacks. Ziyu hurriedly agreed.

Ziyu took out a booklet, this is the detailed account of repairing houses, cutting trees, tidying up yards, planting trees, etc., and this time I took them back to the Bai family. Bai Shi let it be handed over to Qingshuang for accounting. For a while, Ziyu and Qingshuang reconciled. Feiguang came in.

Feiguang said hello. Bai Shi said strangely: "Why did you come back now?" Feiguang replied with a smile: "Because our beautiful clothes are selling too well, although we recruited more people later, now we don't have enough of them." ”

Bai Shi was surprised: "Isn't it the person who was just recruited a few days ago?" Feiguang said: "In fact, there were a lot of orders a few days ago, and I recruited people to rush to work, and I just rushed out, and now there are a large number of orders." It's all long-term orders, so we still have to recruit people. ”

Bai Shi and Chen Wenhui were both surprised: "Where did the long-term orders pop up again?" Feiguang said: "Isn't this Chen Fu's idea, let the merchants on credit, in fact, there are not many, more than a dozen merchants have dozens of clothes." Who thinks, it is very easy to sell, and now the merchants are not on credit, competing to get the goods from us, and now the ready-to-wear shops in the city and the village market can't sit still. They all came to us to see the goods, looked at the goods and compared the price, and they all felt that it was profitable and our brocade reputation went out, and everyone was willing to order from us, so they placed long-term orders, but it was not enough manpower. "Bai and Chen Wenhui are very happy. Hurriedly called Chen Cai's family and asked her to go to the market to recruit people again.

Chen Caijia was also surprised when he heard that he was recruiting people again, and said: "This shop managed by Miss Feiguang is really amazing, and this is the third time I have recruited people." Now I'm familiar with the people in personnel. Bai said: "Is our business good or not, now we recruit more people, which is equivalent to helping those poor people more." Chen Caijia said: "Isn't it, now we are recruiting female workers, and these women can't find jobs before and can't help the family." Now that I have monthly money, I can solve a lot of problems. ”

In the evening, Bai and Chen Yuanheng talked. Chen Yuanheng was very happy. "Well, now that we have solved so many employment problems, it is also a small achievement. I've already found a friend I know to let me blow the wind in the government, and I'll send something else, and I guess the prefect in the house will be able to give me a first-class evaluation. ”

When Bai Shi heard this, he immediately said: "It just so happened that I was looking at the account today, and there are still 1,000 taels of silver in the account, and I am still ready to pay it back." Now let's send it to the prefect first. Chen Yuanheng said: "This prefect gives me a lot of face, in fact, I don't need to send more, it's good to have two hundred taels." Let's pay off the rest. ”

Bai said: "Well, then I'll give Chen Cai a pair of cards tomorrow." I still want to pay back the account as much as possible, leave another sum of silver, and buy more land near Lijiagou after the autumn harvest, the small village of 200 acres is too small, why should I get a thousand acres of land. ”

Chen Yuanheng hugged Bai's fragrant shoulder and said, "It's still a good idea that Hui'er gave us." Now that business is doing well everywhere, we should buy more land. The dowry that spent your money should have been returned to you a long time ago. Bai Shi hurriedly said to Chen Yuanheng: "Master don't talk about returning my dowry again." Mine is not yours yet. We are husband and wife, do we have a concubine, and what do you and I have? Chen Yuanheng said cautiously: "I know Madame's heart. But I have my own intentions. ”

After speaking, Chen Yuanheng let go of the hand holding his wife's shoulder, walked slowly to the window, closed the window, and looked around at no one before saying, "Madam knows, the situation in our family." When did the eldest brother and second brother become my own brother? It's just a face-saving affair. When the family is separated in the future, I am afraid that the things in my father's name will have been taken away from them long ago. My grandmother has long seen me unpleasant, how can she give me something. But now that there is no separation, I have come out to be an official, and according to the custom, everything in my name will be taken to the public in the future, can we be willing? We all came out with the dowry of our wife, and we operated in Anseong, and it all depended on us, how we were willing to share it with them. If we put the grange, shop, and business in your name in the name of returning you to the marriage, when it comes to the separation of the family, the eldest brother and the second brother will be embarrassed to beat you for the idea of marrying anyway. ”

Bai Shi understood now. Thinking of what Chen Yuanheng said about being a concubine when he was a child, and then thinking about himself as a concubine when he was a child, everything had to depend on the faces of his mother and sister-in-law, and then thinking about his life as a concubine in the house a few years ago, I couldn't help but shudder. Nodding heavily, he said, "It's still the master's thoughtfulness." So be it. Chen Yuanheng and his wife were immersed in the difficult years of the past for a while. After a long time, Chen Yuanheng said: "Those are still far away, now we can be regarded as getting out, and we will live our good life." Bai smiled happily after hearing this.